When IBM introduced support for WebSphere 8 with Maximo 7.5.0.2 one of the benefits of supporting WebSphere 8 was the new installation process which is simpler and more efficient than the previous versions of WebSphere. WebSphere 8 uses the IBM Installation...

The PARMGEN configuration tool supports a number of components in the following product suites:
Tivoli OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS
Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/OS Management Suite
IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS...

The WebSphere L2 Support team handles its fair share of WebSphere Application Server performance analysis. Often it appears as though the Monitoring Agent (that thing that reports whether the system is behaving - or not) is the problem itself. The...

Do
you want to relocate the Xmeta repository, perform administration and
configuration activities for Xmeta or the WebSphere Application
Server, or configure WebSphere 7.0 to use Secure Sockets Layer to be used with the
Information Server version 8.5
...

Sometimes problem records that I work on for WebSphere MQ Level 2 have a common theme. I've seen a few instances lately where people have created Group IDs with more than 12 characters on Linux Platforms. I thought I would share what I've learned in this area,...

The 2009 Portal Excellence Conference just began. I'm sitting here in the opening general session. The room is pretty full. With most conferences and events having lower attendance due to the economy, it is heartening to see so many people here. And so...

The 2012 WTC has been announced. Save the date, it is 15 - 18 October, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. Click here for more information or to register.
WTC is the largest European annual technical event dedicated to WebSphere products...

IBM is the recipient of the 2013 Chairman's Award for its Smarter Cities Challenge. The award was accepted by Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive officer of IBM on behalf of the company. This video was played at the 2013 CECP Summit -...

The U.S. Online Retail Holiday Shopping Recap Report 2013 delivered by the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark is very insightful for the commerce industry and in planning both from the infrastructure point of view and business strategy of channels &...

1 – The Apache Solr server has been upgraded to release 4.3.0 (if you looking at the specifics, please look at the release notes on http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_3_0/changes/Changes.html )
2 – The programming model has been restructured and...

WebSphere Application Server V8.5 is now available and includes the new 'Liberty' profile of the server. Watch this short video by Ian Robinson, Chief Architect of the WAS Foundation, to see how easy it is to become productive with the WAS Liberty profile WAS...

Background:
High Availability (HA) Manager is a framework that allows singleton services to make themselves highly available. Transaction Log Recovery is one of the HA Manager users.
Every WebSphere Application Server...

IBM Operational Decision Manager is a business rules management system (BRMS). Traditionally, business rules have been implemented in a programming language such as Java or COBOL. Programming the business rules into an application makes them inaccessible to...